Vitamin D and the goldilocks principle: Too little, too much, or just right?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1164-1166

  Drake, Matthew T ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84898433912     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-1350     Document Type: Review

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